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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
The price of authors for cozies (this is from books I post on my blog) was and still is 7.99 for a lot of them. HOWEVER, for any popular author (Joan Hess -- some of her early books just came out in Kindle this week-- is 9.99 https://www.amazon.com/Malice-Maggod...ords=joan+hess) That's high for a cozy AND it's an old book now in kindle. |
That's also from a bit of a specialty reprint publisher that seems to find $7.99-$9.99 their idea price point. A bit high for many, but they seem to be able to sell them fairly well at those price points and allow coupons/discounts and often have many of their books "on sale". I agree it's kind of high (for me anyway), but Open Road has done similar pricing for a lot of titles for a few years now.
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The JD Robb new release is 14.99 Hers have been steadily testing higher prices as they were published because the series is very popular. This is true of any genre, anything that is pretty popular.
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Hers have been priced the same for years with one exception. All of her releases since mid 2011 have come out at $14.99 (with a corresponding HC release) except one which came out at $13.99. Before mid 2011 they were priced $12.99 at launch. They all drop to $7.99 6 months later when the mass market PB come out. (these hit mmpb after 6 months as opposed to the "standard" one year)
Very high for a cozy release if it was a mass market release. Normal for any book when the publisher is releasing it as a hardcover. It's just that not that many cozies get released in anything but mass market paperback. Her other books are higher too, $9.99, because the paper releases are trade paperbacks. It's standard Big 5 pricing and has been the same for years. Big 5 books, except when on sale, always have a tie between paper and ebook pricing like that.